- Subj: Manual for BC 453 - B
Date: 97-08-29 13:23:00 EDT
From: (Anthony McCormick)
I am looking for a copy of a manual or schematic for a U.S. Signal Corps
receiver model BC 453-B which covers the frequency range of 190-550 Kc.
Anthony W. McCormick K8RPQ
- Subj: "SAME" Receiver
Date: 97-08-29 21:18:12 EDT
From: d.jones160
Radio Shack had a SAME weather radio in stock this evening. This is
the radio which can be programmed to only give warnings in your county.
David Jones
Columbus GA
- Subject: LF Ham Operation in Germany
Date: 97-08-25
From: David W. Johnson
I am SURE you will be interested in this!
Dave WA4NID
email: djohnsonacpub.duke.edu
packet: WA4NIDWR4AGC.#DUR.NC.USA.NOAM
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 97 14:02:30 -0700
From: Peter
To: djohnsonacpub.duke.edu
Subject: Lowfers in Germany active!
Message-Id: 11244_jpl-gw
From: dj8wlw6vio (Peter)
To: djohnson@acpub.duke.edu
Hi Dave,
you remember me? You sent me some Lowfer-materials last year....
Thanks again!
M e a n w h i l e w e m a d e it ! ! !
Two stations got permission to operaten between 135.7 ... 137.8 kHz
in DL: DA0LF (me) and DA0VLF (DL1VDL). The licences were issued
at the end of June 1997 and are valid till the end of this year.
There will be no other licences granted...
Data: 100 watts (no specification whether EIRP or TX-power, we assume
TX-power), all modes as long as the bandwidth is not wider than
the window specified.
No antenna restrictions !
Transmissions permitted on n.i.b. (non interference basis).
Report requested by issuing authority (BAPT) about QRM (!)-
situation on LF.
So far the good news. You might forward this info to the American
Lowfers community - if you happen to have connex with them. Would
appreciate your help. Thanks.
I am running tests at the moment with 7 watts rf into my 160m in-
verted L antenna resonated with baseloading coil of 3.6 mH.
Copied my signal with 559 in 50 kilometers distance. It can be
heard in a distance of abt. 100 km...
First QSO took place at the end of June during the HAMRADIO
convention at Friedrichshafen/Lake Constance, South Germany
between DA0LF and DA0VLF.
Hope you can spread this info to all.
It will not be possible to cross the pond, but who knows...
Greetings,
Peter/DJ8WL (DA0LF on 137.7 kHz)
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- Subj: RE: Ken Cornell Scrapbook
Date: 97-08-20 06:53:09 EDT
From: bdieser (Barry Dieser)
I did receive my scrapbook. It took a couple of months before the check
I sent got cashed. Then the book showed up shortly after that. After
having just recently gone through a death in the family, and knowing how
long it can take to settle an estate, I was not surprised by this. I am
getting a lot out of the scrapbook and feel it was worth the wait.
-Barry
- Subject: Sprites, Elves and Blue Jets
From: Sgut1
Rcvd: 97-08-15
In the August/September issue of, "Weatherwise" there is a good article on these strange forms of lightning. Lots of pictures, diagrams and information on observing red sprites yourself. The article is written by Walter A. Lyons. This web site was at the end of the article:
www.FMA-research.com.
Stephen Gutierrez
(A newcomer to the LWCA and this site)
- Subj: OK Beacon
Date: 97-08-14 09:56:11 EDT
From: k0lr (Lyle Koehler)
LowFER beacon OK is readable here in Minnesota this morning at 0845
local time. First LowFER DX in a several months. SAM is also coming in
better than it has all summer; there's hope that the QRN season will
eventually come to an end.
73 from Lyle, K0LR
- Subject: Differential GPS
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:01:46 CDT
From: Mark McDaniel
John,
I was talking to Rick Wright about information I found about building a
homebrew DGPS receiver. He asked me to send this info to you.
Check out the following web page:
- http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/gps.html
This page belongs to a Ham (WE7U). You can download the software from his
web page and he suggests e-mailing him for his FAQ on DGPS. (I'm planning
to.) You can e-mail him from his web page....
Good Luck,
Mark
- Subject: Re: Consol
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997
From: Jon Iza
Finally got the journal (see third message below) and here it goes, the translation of the
first part of the article, the one which may be of interest for
the readers of The Lowdown. I haven't changed anything, so it
is a "sic" translation. If there are mistakes or spelling errors
on names or uses, they remain "as is" (or is it "as are"?).
jon, ea2sn
- Click here to read Jon's translation.
- unid beacons
From: Jacques d'Avignon
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997
While surfing the net I found that on the LW page of rkdx@aol.com
there was a mention that someone had heard a beacon that could not be
identified: UAA.
Here is my answer, it might be of some help to other beacon
chasers.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:19:05 +0100
From: "Jacques d'Avignon"
Organization: HF Radio Monitoring and Radio Propagation Forecasting Services.
To: rkdx@aol.com
Subject: unid beacon
The beacon identified as UAA is a National Defence beacon that has no
permanent location.
There are identifiers assigned to national Defence that have no
permanent site.
The ID's are: UAA, UFF, UGG, UJJ, UKK, UNN, USS, UTT, UWW and UZZ.
No frequencies are assigned to these and they can be heard anywhere in
the band.
They are classified as tactical/transportable beacons.
Hope this help.
Jacques
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- Jacques
- Subject: NDB databases
From: Jacques d'Avignon
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 17:02:14 -0400
I have looked at the NDB database offered from the Irish site. Many
Canadian NDB are not on there. I cannot speak for the European ones.
The best Canadian NDB dbase can be found at:
http://ftp.bruderhof.com/ka2qpg/
Its US counterpart can be found at:
http://www.airnav.com/
- Reply 1: Thanks for the message, Jacques. Simply from the number of beacons included in the Irish database, I figured it must be missing some, but I wasn't sure where they might be. Readers will probably need to depend more on the KA2QPG and the AirNav databases for their North American NDB needs. -- JHD
- Reply 2: - Subj: Re: NDB Database
Date: 97-08-09 11:21:39 EDT
From: mmommsen (P. Thomson)
Wow, that's some database! I grepped all the NDB's out of it
and got 4745 of them!
However, barring divine intervention, I probably won't hear
any NDB's outside the US/Canada/Greenland from my NY location.
I'll ask the WAND folks if they mind me putting a search
engine on the Web to scan that database. That would be an
answer for all those people who ask about international info.
7 weeks till beacon season starts for me! Hope I'm ready.
73,
Pierre Thomson (RI / KA2QPG)
- Subj: Wanted -- VLF Receiver
Date: 97-08-07 22:10:46 EDT
From:
I am looking for a RYCOM 6041 Selective Voltmeter/
receiver or a similar receiver . Also am looking for
VLF ( 1-10KHz ) range receiver. Must be in good operating condition.
Carl M.Chernan WA3UER
- Subject: Top End - 1640
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:13:06 -0700
From: jwoodsorednet.org (Jack S. Woods)
KXBT is (again) on 1640. IDs as Vallejo, Richmond, San Francisco.
- Subject: Consol
Date: Aug. 6 1997
From: Jon Iza
Shortly after reading on The Lowdown about Consol Transmitter sites, I read in the
Spanish ham Journal "Radioaficionados" about some people activating an
old site at the NW coast of Spain. There were some comments about being
something the Germans put here, with Generalisimo Franco's blessing...
They are trying to recover the place to use some of the towers, which are
still up, as a 160 meter contest site... I'm looking for the article and I
will translate the interesting parts for you (when I will find it on my
shack's mess...)
This is a small world!
--
Jon Iza ea2sn since 1978 qrp'er at large!
** One's needs are proportional to the square of his/her incompetence **
URE - ARRL - DARC - VERON - ARI - WIA - NZART - AMSAT-UK - TAPR - IDRA
EAqrp=26 Gqrp=1216 ARCI=5153 qrp-L=313 NorCal=701 ARS=202 AK=203
- Subject: NDB Database
Date: August 5, 1997
From: patty1 (Patty Winter)
http://homepages.iol.ie/~markzee/wand.htm
More than 9,000 VORs and NDBs. The list is available both as an Excel
file and as a plain text file. (Both are Zipped, but I have an unZip
program for my Mac, so that was no problem.)
73,
Patty N6BIS
- Subj: Part III of Weak Signals in Noise
Date: 97-08-03 16:46:15 EDT
From: (John Reed)
I heard TEXAS for the
first time in many weeks this afternoon. On Sundays, the line noise is
usually better. I hope this is an indication of good DXing in the future.
I'm using a new receiver here, a Harris RF-550. I like it because it's the
only synthesized digital readout receiver I've seen that is perfectly quiet
alongside a loop. It has a good S/N rating and 500 Hz filter. I plan to
install another homebrew crystal filter of 100 or 200 Hz bandwidth later.
73, John
- Subject: Lowdown
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 16:42:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Clifford Buttschardt
Hi John. Just got Lowdown and once again I must say that you do a
marvelous job of paraphrasing. Even Bill DeCarle mentioned (on twenty
meter BPSK) that the reporting of BPSK QSO's was of value.
As you mentioned, something has happened in that no major disasters have
ocurred. Today, all of us on BPSK have been trying to interest G3IRM in
the UK to get on. We all hear a few CQ's and nothing more. The first few
attempts at BPSK are difficult, so this is a real accomplishment.
BPSK in the summer is really a good replacement for lowfer listening. In fact, there have been a number of unscheduled contacts on
7081 anytime between 0130 and 0230 UTC. Except for the path between Bill
Lake and myself, that frequency seems the most popular.
Cliff Buttschardt K7RR